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and ronald reagan was president and he said you have to pass the debt ceiling increase. and i went to the florida house and made a speech about how we have already used this credit card and we had to, you know, come to terms with the debt ceiling increase. and i voted for every debt ceiling increase from then on. >> democrat or republican. >> i don't like it, and it is a way to get some leverage. but the problem is not the debt ceiling increase, it was taking action so you don't have to have an increased. >> absolutely. >> very good, very helpful, a good history lesson there. let me do some housekeeping. when we finished tonight, we are going right outside the store for cocktails, chocolates, and cheese. tomorrow morning, breakfast is probably at 7:00 a.m. the program begins at 745. so you need to be in this room at 745 tomorrow morning. most important times tomorrow, if you're thinking about your schedule. another we lose some of you occasionally during the day, the task force starts at 10:15 a.m. we need everyone in this task forces because that's where the core work o
and ronald reagan was president and he said you have to pass the debt ceiling increase. and i went to the florida house and made a speech about how we have already used this credit card and we had to, you know, come to terms with the debt ceiling increase. and i voted for every debt ceiling increase from then on. >> democrat or republican. >> i don't like it, and it is a way to get some leverage. but the problem is not the debt ceiling increase, it was taking action so you don't...
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ronald reagan -- ronald reagan ran in a very different america. ronald reagan would have a difficult time in today's republican primary process. i think there are lessons here on the republican side and the democratic side. i think they are not as technocratic as blaise is suggesting and those lessons can be learned easily. it is the remaking of a party's approach and the republicans can't you national party if they turn off african-americans, hispanics and now women. the republican party today is 90% white. and the democratic party i understand is the caucus that returns to washington will be 50% majority, 50% were in majority minority women. when we look at the state of the union, next year, that divide is so apparent with republicans on one side and democrats on the other. the overwhelming white maleness of the republican party comes through. i love white males and i gave birth to three of them. [laughter] there aren't enough of them to keep the republican party alive, and i should add a footnote. my three sons aren't contributing to the republ
ronald reagan -- ronald reagan ran in a very different america. ronald reagan would have a difficult time in today's republican primary process. i think there are lessons here on the republican side and the democratic side. i think they are not as technocratic as blaise is suggesting and those lessons can be learned easily. it is the remaking of a party's approach and the republicans can't you national party if they turn off african-americans, hispanics and now women. the republican party today...
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that's ronald reagan endorsing barry goldwater in 1964. what he said at the end of that speech was that he did not believe there was a thing like the left or right, just up or down. all too often con receivertives fell into the left versus right rhetoric which reagan did not like to use. in 1976, the republican party was faced with extinction, one-third of the member of the house of representatives, over half of those defined by any neutral observer as center left. the conservative movement was irrelevant to american life, and ronald reagan went into cpac which could have been held in an audience room smaller than this in ?erch, -- 1997 giving a speech called "the new republican party," outlining how he would win in four years. what we did in that speech was talk about when you talk about programs and what to do, talk about how it works, don't talk about it in terms of i'dology. ronald reagan in 1997 at the depth of the republican party, how does it create a rebirth. it's time we listen to ronald rage p. >> three questions here, here, and
that's ronald reagan endorsing barry goldwater in 1964. what he said at the end of that speech was that he did not believe there was a thing like the left or right, just up or down. all too often con receivertives fell into the left versus right rhetoric which reagan did not like to use. in 1976, the republican party was faced with extinction, one-third of the member of the house of representatives, over half of those defined by any neutral observer as center left. the conservative movement was...
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they are what ronald reagan called the three legs of the policy store. social policy, economic policy and foreign policy. fully embracing each one of those. what we had instead was one wally leggitt with about a billion dollars behind it on the republican side. from the top of the ticket and then affecting every other senate race in the country because of that influence. each of those areas a real mandate is created and then there is a resonance on the ground on the grassroots level that brings public policy leaders to those areas so they can be implemented without fully in beijing on each of those areas, and of course on social policy we leave votes on the table every single time. what we have unfortunately was a defective truth on social issues. a defacto truth on social issues on one side, but a full embrace of the war on social issues on the other side. republicans have the truth, obama launched a war over abortion and on the life issue. therefore he got to completely define what that issue was and what is at? rate. event rate in the might of many vo
they are what ronald reagan called the three legs of the policy store. social policy, economic policy and foreign policy. fully embracing each one of those. what we had instead was one wally leggitt with about a billion dollars behind it on the republican side. from the top of the ticket and then affecting every other senate race in the country because of that influence. each of those areas a real mandate is created and then there is a resonance on the ground on the grassroots level that brings...
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i looked to ronald reagan's leadership. all republicans referred but it wasn't created five years ago. it has a history going all the way back to the first president who was the republican abraham lincoln lost the election fet 56 but lincoln did lowercase a we have everything from the importance of individual dignity and the political discourse to an articulation of the humanity that we are passing down to the next generation as stated by the roosevelt to the importance of the infrastructure system as discussed by eisenhower to a big bold president like ronald reagan willing to sit down with the evelyn tire to engage in direct negotiations. so we are drawing from a long history of important achievement for this country and as some point as republicans we are going to have to have a discussion about what republicanism is today in the 21st century while drawing from the roots and recognizing we have to keep pace of changing demographics. they will go out of business and ceased to exist. they are holding company for fund raise
i looked to ronald reagan's leadership. all republicans referred but it wasn't created five years ago. it has a history going all the way back to the first president who was the republican abraham lincoln lost the election fet 56 but lincoln did lowercase a we have everything from the importance of individual dignity and the political discourse to an articulation of the humanity that we are passing down to the next generation as stated by the roosevelt to the importance of the infrastructure...
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you go back before president ronald reagan came to washington we have higher tax rates on the incomes savings and economists have been arguing for ever that it is the wrong way to go that it discourages, sitting and discouraging investment and overtime they've come down to the state to go back in the direction of putting heavier burdens. >> what about the notion. that's just a heavy left isn't it? stat it's exactly the same rhetoric and the same politics base broadening, lowering tax reform coming you saw in the recent presidential campaign we have a candidate running on the 20% rate and 25% rate you might think in washington that means we are going to end at 26.5 until you try to figure out how to pay for it, and the politicians will talk about rolling back loopholes but when you actually look at them that tax policy decisions that have been made about the depreciation and manufacturing and the energy industry all of which have significant constituencies behind them and all of which are difficult to address. islamic of course we haven't had a whole lot of folks at least i've heard of
you go back before president ronald reagan came to washington we have higher tax rates on the incomes savings and economists have been arguing for ever that it is the wrong way to go that it discourages, sitting and discouraging investment and overtime they've come down to the state to go back in the direction of putting heavier burdens. >> what about the notion. that's just a heavy left isn't it? stat it's exactly the same rhetoric and the same politics base broadening, lowering tax...
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the three best performances among white voters by republican challengers ronald reagan, 56% in 1980, george h. w. bush, 59% in 1980, and dwight eisenhower 60% and 9052. in each case that was sufficient to win, knowing to win but win a landslide election. in this case mitt romney won 59% of white voters and lost. in a race that was very close and the popular vote but really not that competitive in the electoral college in the end. i mean, that is kind of a striking moment. mont blanc, the terrific political scientist and historian said in a couple years ago, most american history white majorities have ruled. candidates of most whites -- barack obama became the first nominee to lose weight by double-digit and went on to win but when the biggest democratic victory in 44 years. and in this election he lost white voters by 20 points and one. and he won because democrat republicans in effect are conceding, once again in this election 80% of the growing minority population. i wrote in august that obama's forum for victory was 80-40, 26. he won 80% of them. if he matched that began and they
the three best performances among white voters by republican challengers ronald reagan, 56% in 1980, george h. w. bush, 59% in 1980, and dwight eisenhower 60% and 9052. in each case that was sufficient to win, knowing to win but win a landslide election. in this case mitt romney won 59% of white voters and lost. in a race that was very close and the popular vote but really not that competitive in the electoral college in the end. i mean, that is kind of a striking moment. mont blanc, the...
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ronald reagan brought it up to the mid 30s. bob dole in the midst of the anti-immigrant sentiment of the 1990s took it back below 30. george w. bush got it back up to the magic 40% that karl rove thought was the jumping-off point for neutralizing all these questions. so, you know, how -- we're talking about a fairly small margin of voters here. so if you, you know, a 10% shift in latino votes, moving a million two, million three, you know, the actual -- what the turnout is we don't really know yet. it's going the take a while. the exit poll numbers are losing credibility as time goes on, but that's -- i don't want to get too -- >> john king. >> geeky with you. yeah. [laughter] but the shift of a million voters, million and a half voters and romney would have been in the mid 30s in terms of his share. and everybody would have said that was a pretty good night for a republican. now, what would have happened in terms of actual states, i knew you were going to ask -- [laughter] >> and then i want to go down the row to get everyone.
ronald reagan brought it up to the mid 30s. bob dole in the midst of the anti-immigrant sentiment of the 1990s took it back below 30. george w. bush got it back up to the magic 40% that karl rove thought was the jumping-off point for neutralizing all these questions. so, you know, how -- we're talking about a fairly small margin of voters here. so if you, you know, a 10% shift in latino votes, moving a million two, million three, you know, the actual -- what the turnout is we don't really know...
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i grew up at my during ronald reagan. one of the things i admired was his style, his grace and we need to have that back in the national dialogue and politics and the ability to get along and cooperate and respect each other, and until we get that mutual respect it is going to be very difficult to move things forward in this country but i believe we will get there because we have to get their and i want to thank governor schwarzenegger for inviting us here and having the leadership to do that. >> secretary, if you believe that lyndon johnson could be nominated as a democratic candidate today? >> i do. i do think he would because from the moderate wing, the clinton johnson but despite the joke about the governor -- [laughter] i noticed arnall -- arnold said something about body mass at the beginning. [laughter] these governors here -- and i don't mean to disparage what's happening in washington -- we as governors -- and i hope the schwarzenegger institute doesn't abandon the states and the county commission's because we ha
i grew up at my during ronald reagan. one of the things i admired was his style, his grace and we need to have that back in the national dialogue and politics and the ability to get along and cooperate and respect each other, and until we get that mutual respect it is going to be very difficult to move things forward in this country but i believe we will get there because we have to get their and i want to thank governor schwarzenegger for inviting us here and having the leadership to do that....
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>> guest: ronald reagan for one because i voted for it. in 1985. it didn't get many votes but i was one of them. president bush submitted budgets the balanced. the second president bush weekend for balanced budgets under president clinton in the first year president bush was president. was dhaka with the busheir tax cuts and a stake as we look now at the dead of $16 trillion? >> guest: our problem isn't tax revenue, its spending. i think the bush tax cuts were a positive affect. >> host: with the tax cuts in addition to the war in iraq and afghanistan, the development of the department homeland security the congress and the president but democrats and republicans didn't do enough to pay for those. >> guest: my democratic friends enjoy spending money. they don't enjoy paying for what they spend. there is a little thing called the laugher curve and it may be out of date to talk about it but it's just kind of a bell shaped curve and as you take that tax rates down, you get more revenue because people work harder and more wealth is created. we have sho
>> guest: ronald reagan for one because i voted for it. in 1985. it didn't get many votes but i was one of them. president bush submitted budgets the balanced. the second president bush weekend for balanced budgets under president clinton in the first year president bush was president. was dhaka with the busheir tax cuts and a stake as we look now at the dead of $16 trillion? >> guest: our problem isn't tax revenue, its spending. i think the bush tax cuts were a positive affect....
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in nominating justice kennedy to the supreme court in 1987, president ronald reagan remarked that his career was a judge in the u.s. court of appeals for the ninth circuit as a constitutional law professor and in private practice was marked by the devotion to the simple straightforward principle but we are a government of law and not of men. during the more than three decades on the bench, justice kennedy has played an interpol role in the consideration and the decision of some of the most significant cases and serious constitutional alleges in the nation's history. he's been a staunch defender of the first amendment rights, individual liberty against government intrusion and federalism. these are qualities of the constitutional series and we are honored to have the justice. heritage to provide this evening's lecture. please join me in welcoming the honorable anthony kennedy. [applause] >> thank you. [applause] thank you very much. good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. and my fellow citizens in the nation that must seek to come closer to the idea and the reality of a rule blah, blah a
in nominating justice kennedy to the supreme court in 1987, president ronald reagan remarked that his career was a judge in the u.s. court of appeals for the ninth circuit as a constitutional law professor and in private practice was marked by the devotion to the simple straightforward principle but we are a government of law and not of men. during the more than three decades on the bench, justice kennedy has played an interpol role in the consideration and the decision of some of the most...
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you know, ronald reagan had it right, you threaten us, we win, you lose. [applause] [laughter] we need less regulation, fewer laws that restrict. our business and our jobs and our freedoms. we need a comprehensive and integrated national security policy that returns american pride, prestige and respect around the world where our allies stand with us at all times, and our enemies fear us for good reason. we need to insure our national secrets and vital interests are protected, and it's got to bring to bear all assets and resources of national power into a unified effort with six core pieces. first, an immigration policy that until the federal government does their job, allows the states to protect themselves and to check to see if you're supposed to be here, if there's a question. and if you're not, we're going to return you to your home country at their expense. and no amnesty. being an american citizen's an honor. membership should be reserved for those who follow the rules, and it's -- [inaudible] and an energy policy. we need to increase our oil domesti
you know, ronald reagan had it right, you threaten us, we win, you lose. [applause] [laughter] we need less regulation, fewer laws that restrict. our business and our jobs and our freedoms. we need a comprehensive and integrated national security policy that returns american pride, prestige and respect around the world where our allies stand with us at all times, and our enemies fear us for good reason. we need to insure our national secrets and vital interests are protected, and it's got to...
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we haven't touched it since ronald reagan in 1986. bill clinton did raise it at one point but we haven't done anything to touch the rate and reform -- tecum from 16.5% to 15% which most of you are aware of because you do business there, and this capital investment is going to follow countries that have a more competitive environment in taxes is one of them's a we have to reform the tax code and when you do that you will get more revenue. it's guaranteed. again, as i was talking at earlier there are opportunities here for us as a country and if you look at the congressional budget analysts this and go to the tax committee analysis what tax reform could mean in the economic growth and all of them will lead to more growth with this corporate tax reform. estimate of the president says what he did last friday, this was fought over in the campaign and we fought over rising tax rates. jay carney said they would veto any bill that extends the current tax rate so if he insists that tax rates go out for those making over to under $50,000 will w
we haven't touched it since ronald reagan in 1986. bill clinton did raise it at one point but we haven't done anything to touch the rate and reform -- tecum from 16.5% to 15% which most of you are aware of because you do business there, and this capital investment is going to follow countries that have a more competitive environment in taxes is one of them's a we have to reform the tax code and when you do that you will get more revenue. it's guaranteed. again, as i was talking at earlier there...
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we started with the bill on this and ronald reagan picked it up and really carried a pair we got it done in a bipartisan way. when we did our original bill, we took out the mortgage deduction. we took out the charitable deduction. we took out everything. it was pristine. it was 10, 15, 25 was the top rate and we thought of as an elegant bill and it was. it just couldn't pass politically. so we had all the real estate people and all the mortgage bankers and everybody came to town and cities get rid of the mortgage interest deduction at the end of the world. so you lost. on the university president and all the other charities came and said you can't get rid of that. the only thing we hung onto the state and local income tax. how we hung onto that i'll never know. and in the end, we were able to lure individual rate by taking more money from the corporate guy, which i don't think you can do now. everyone says the corporate rate is too high in america. to be competitive with guy to get it done. this is going to be really difficult exercise. if you're combining it with cutting entitlements an
we started with the bill on this and ronald reagan picked it up and really carried a pair we got it done in a bipartisan way. when we did our original bill, we took out the mortgage deduction. we took out the charitable deduction. we took out everything. it was pristine. it was 10, 15, 25 was the top rate and we thought of as an elegant bill and it was. it just couldn't pass politically. so we had all the real estate people and all the mortgage bankers and everybody came to town and cities get...
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and the communal, when ronald reagan wave to the big bill around in his state of the union in the ladies the democrats could not have pled that we did not have microsoft word. the continuing resolution was very fast, very big, very fast. there are others. it seems like when it really matters that is what we are least likely to get the time to read these. we really need to defend ourselves as a society. so all of these technical advances are good and creating 30-40 different variables, the real crucial thing, before we pass these huge loss, especially if it is in the middle of the night or whenever, what is the political failure here that we still can't do this? i would also note that it is doable. the affordable care act, obamacare, there was 72 hours. in fact, everybody in washington , was marveling. it was accepted. nobody argue with it. i met a lobbyist who was complaining. they could not because who is going to hang out for 72 hours. they could not get away with it. this can be done, even on use things like the affordable care act. you know, i would ask, what can the rules committee
and the communal, when ronald reagan wave to the big bill around in his state of the union in the ladies the democrats could not have pled that we did not have microsoft word. the continuing resolution was very fast, very big, very fast. there are others. it seems like when it really matters that is what we are least likely to get the time to read these. we really need to defend ourselves as a society. so all of these technical advances are good and creating 30-40 different variables, the real...
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the other approach is the approach by ronald reagan. lower taxes, restrain the growth of government spending, reducing regulation and empower small businesses and empower entrepreneurs. i'm proud to have the support of the national federation of independent business of texas association of business and the u.s. chamber of commerce, small business owners in texas because my focus is going to be helping small business owners create jobs and that will help to turn our economy around. >> moderator: mr. sather why would you be the better senator? sadler: sadler: i've ask it on the things he is talked about. i have been in the legislature and i've passed the bill. i left when my youngest son was involved in an accident i chaired a number of committees and served on the legislative budget. i am the co-author of the education code. i pass the largest property taxes in the history of our state. i passed health insurance for public school employees for the first time in history the state. i is named -- for that. since then i've been involved in t
the other approach is the approach by ronald reagan. lower taxes, restrain the growth of government spending, reducing regulation and empower small businesses and empower entrepreneurs. i'm proud to have the support of the national federation of independent business of texas association of business and the u.s. chamber of commerce, small business owners in texas because my focus is going to be helping small business owners create jobs and that will help to turn our economy around. >>...
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ronald reagan and tip o'neill. it ought to be president obama and john boehner saying, we should pass this middle class -- now, here's the thing i don't get. when the bush tax cuts went into place, they were passed overwhelmingly by republicans. why wouldn't the same republicans want to make sure that they continue for 98% of the people? i don't get it. i did not vote for the bush tax cuts then. i'm going to vote for them now, for the 98%, because we're coming out of a tough time. i didn't vote for them. do you know why? i said that we would go into huge deficits. and i don't want to say that i was right. but we did go into a huge period of deficits. it was that. it was two wars on a credit card. it was a prescription drug benefit that was not paid for by allowing medicare to negotiate for lower prices. i voted against that, too. so here we are at a magic moment in time -- a magical moment, because it's the holiday seaso season -- and we know the senate passed the middle class tax cuts in july and we know there's 2
ronald reagan and tip o'neill. it ought to be president obama and john boehner saying, we should pass this middle class -- now, here's the thing i don't get. when the bush tax cuts went into place, they were passed overwhelmingly by republicans. why wouldn't the same republicans want to make sure that they continue for 98% of the people? i don't get it. i did not vote for the bush tax cuts then. i'm going to vote for them now, for the 98%, because we're coming out of a tough time. i didn't vote...
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what the government needs is what ronald reagan did, is to be put on a diet. if romney gets elected, that is the debate we will have. if obama gets elected, it will be how high the taxes go. though. if romney gets elected, the debate will be how low can we keep taxes and the second part we need, how can we reform the tax system. how can we either go to a flat tax or at least flatten our taxes so that we end up with one or two rates and end up with fewer deductions, fewer exceptions, put that money into a lower rate. i think the governor romney is absolutely right. you don't list all of those now. he could not possibly know all those now. in one case from the direction will be how we increase revenues to the government or in the other case, the direction will be how we at least keep revenues where they are and see if we can reduce a little bit. and then where do we find a reduction in spending. that is a very exciting. max time to go through. that is what i went through when i worked for president reagan as an associate attorney general. president reagan, as yo
what the government needs is what ronald reagan did, is to be put on a diet. if romney gets elected, that is the debate we will have. if obama gets elected, it will be how high the taxes go. though. if romney gets elected, the debate will be how low can we keep taxes and the second part we need, how can we reform the tax system. how can we either go to a flat tax or at least flatten our taxes so that we end up with one or two rates and end up with fewer deductions, fewer exceptions, put that...
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and he did it when ronald reagan was president. he did it when there was a president who had different views from his own and they worked together for the good of the country. and i look over at the house and i don't know what i see. there is a few brave voices there speaking out and saying, let's do this thing, let's extend the middle-class tax cuts. but let me tell you, we have 27 days left to do this before people start facing higher taxes. on average, $2,200 a family. and that's a lot of money for a middle-class family. now, i want to just be completely honest here and bring up an issue, which is that i never voted for the bush era tax cuts. i was one of the few minority, because i worried that it would destroy our fiscal responsibility. and i hate to say it now, i was right. i was right. there were surpluses that bill clinton left us, but because george w. bush went in front of the microphone and said, "i have political capital and i'm going to cut everybody's taxes," he then put two wars on the credit card and that was the en
and he did it when ronald reagan was president. he did it when there was a president who had different views from his own and they worked together for the good of the country. and i look over at the house and i don't know what i see. there is a few brave voices there speaking out and saying, let's do this thing, let's extend the middle-class tax cuts. but let me tell you, we have 27 days left to do this before people start facing higher taxes. on average, $2,200 a family. and that's a lot of...
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ronald reagan, jeb bush, bob bennett, bob english, chuck hagel, mitch daniels, mickey edwards to name a few of many are plenty conservative and not extreme. now i'm going to suggest that a party can be extreme in three ways and i will discuss each. tactics, ideology and rhetoric. first tactics. i should emphasize tactics do depend on context. i posit that the gop has adopted a set of parliamentary tactics in a nonparliamentary system in a way that is unlike any we have seen before. underscoring some of jeb bush's points, purely oppositional and obstructionist disdaining problem-solving, defining its partisan adversary as the enemy and opposing positions often because of who is supporting them, not because of what is in them. now the first evidence comes from the filibuster, let me put up a chart. which is now being applied in a fashion unseen in all of previous american history. i don't have time to go over the history of the filibuster. much of it is in the book. did i mention it makes a great holiday gift? but, let me say that in the past filibusters were used rarely for an issues o
ronald reagan, jeb bush, bob bennett, bob english, chuck hagel, mitch daniels, mickey edwards to name a few of many are plenty conservative and not extreme. now i'm going to suggest that a party can be extreme in three ways and i will discuss each. tactics, ideology and rhetoric. first tactics. i should emphasize tactics do depend on context. i posit that the gop has adopted a set of parliamentary tactics in a nonparliamentary system in a way that is unlike any we have seen before. underscoring...
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we represent ronald reagan democrats to a fiscally responsible people in all parties. this isn't just republicans, libertarians, we are about limited government, personal responsibility and free markets and i don't know about dewaal but i think that most of us across the country in all parties support those things come and again, these patriots right here are willing to stand behind us. the american people are going to stand behind them. thank you. >> we are launching today in action committee of logging that would be up on the hill headed by bob adams owls less nigel as well as others the will be joining to the petitions like this known and give notice to the policy was well as to make sure the tea party voices heard up on the hill. thank you for joining us today. if you have any questions please feel free to ask their representatives as well as every elected officials. thank you very much. >>> the white house was very controversial as most were. he designed the washington city car there was competition and he submitted design for a palace but americans were not havin
we represent ronald reagan democrats to a fiscally responsible people in all parties. this isn't just republicans, libertarians, we are about limited government, personal responsibility and free markets and i don't know about dewaal but i think that most of us across the country in all parties support those things come and again, these patriots right here are willing to stand behind us. the american people are going to stand behind them. thank you. >> we are launching today in action...
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and on the right, the properly organize conservative movement, ronald reagan republican party, with a year out how to make more and more americans free, independent, self-reliant so that they joined the leave us alone coalition and focus their political activity on being left alone. so those are the two structures in american politics. we do have the possibility of third parties, but it's not like you're. in europe if you get 1% of the vote, your account important that everyone talks to. here if you get 1% of the vote you are officially not. you don't get to fly in air force one but you might get a radio talk show. thank you. [applause] >> good afternoon. i'm karen floyd and i have to tell you, grover gave you a macrocosm of what the conservative republican looks like. i'm going to ask you now to do the exact opposite and look at a micro focus. i want to talk to you a little bit about the conservative republican woman, and i want to do so from to vantage point. i want to share with you a little bit about myself and want to talk to you about palladium view and about some of the finding
and on the right, the properly organize conservative movement, ronald reagan republican party, with a year out how to make more and more americans free, independent, self-reliant so that they joined the leave us alone coalition and focus their political activity on being left alone. so those are the two structures in american politics. we do have the possibility of third parties, but it's not like you're. in europe if you get 1% of the vote, your account important that everyone talks to. here...
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thursday after every election since ronald reagan won in 1980. i'm david hawkings, and i have been at cq roll call since my first day of work there was the day newt gingrich became speaker in 1995. a day of outnumber very well. and i now the editor of the cq roll call daily briefing. which is one of few things we give away for free. so i encourage you to go on a website and sign up. what it is is an e-mail that i send right every morning and sent out right before noon the trust to offer a window into the politics and policy of the day, how the day is unfolding, what's sort of the analytical construct of the afternoon, both in the house and the senate and in the campaigns, and i hope it's a good read, and maybe you will learn something from it and i encourage you to check it out. and i also a handful of our best stories from both cq and roll call, and starting on monday as i think you are aware when you check in, the newly relaunched roll call. which will be, i can't wait to see. i can't wait to be a part of the it's going to be a must read daily
thursday after every election since ronald reagan won in 1980. i'm david hawkings, and i have been at cq roll call since my first day of work there was the day newt gingrich became speaker in 1995. a day of outnumber very well. and i now the editor of the cq roll call daily briefing. which is one of few things we give away for free. so i encourage you to go on a website and sign up. what it is is an e-mail that i send right every morning and sent out right before noon the trust to offer a...
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if you were to ask harry truman and dean atchison, henry kissinger or ronald reagan and george shultz, whether politics get nasty on foreign policy they would say it certainly does. >> let me start with you, rich. you were one the lead foreign advisors in '08. what do you think has been the most surprising thing the president implemented in his foreign policy you wouldn't have expected during the campaign? >> i think the most striking thing is one that i would have expected but that has gone further than i anticipated and that is the evident skill with which the president has used force on, it is an administration i think is striking for use of all tools of national security and foreign policy but the tendency for any given leader is to err in one direction or another and this president i think has been striking in his pursuit of peace and his use of diplomatic and collisional and other strategies and his willingness in key situations where american interests demand it to commit to military force. the bin laden raid is the most dramatic example of this but there are many others. >> yo
if you were to ask harry truman and dean atchison, henry kissinger or ronald reagan and george shultz, whether politics get nasty on foreign policy they would say it certainly does. >> let me start with you, rich. you were one the lead foreign advisors in '08. what do you think has been the most surprising thing the president implemented in his foreign policy you wouldn't have expected during the campaign? >> i think the most striking thing is one that i would have expected but that...
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i think that to look at the iran contra you have to look at what ronald reagan had been trying to do all along. in 1981 and september there are the documents that he approves. one is a national security directive that essentially raises the policy will be towards iran going forward and one of the elements of that in addition to the containment so that it doesn't spread to saudi arabia is to actively pursue moderates within the government that we might work with and there's a recognition that iran was powerful in the cold war and elsewhere to have the modern full of so we have to work with this government and maybe there are people who as you said earlier they hold the american sentiment. the other piece of that is the cia director which is to try to find these guys that we could work with, so william casey, director of the cia was always pursuing that. the idea may be if we provided some weapons to the moderates it was keeping what we have been doing for four or five years already. but that tension between iran as a threat versus some sort of an accommodation is the big stickler in o
i think that to look at the iran contra you have to look at what ronald reagan had been trying to do all along. in 1981 and september there are the documents that he approves. one is a national security directive that essentially raises the policy will be towards iran going forward and one of the elements of that in addition to the containment so that it doesn't spread to saudi arabia is to actively pursue moderates within the government that we might work with and there's a recognition that...
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what was the importance of the relationship with ronald reagan? >> guest: oh, thatcher's relationship with reagan i think is one of the greatest the finding relationships of the late '20s century. they understood each other totally. and they support each other totally. and they shared a vision of an enterprise society, where every man and every woman has the right to rise, the right to better themselves, and that government should not be redistributing wealth. government should be creating a level playing field where anybody could create wealth for themselves. and they also had a vision, of a democratic society spread throughout the world and they wanted to see the end of the soviet union. and between them they forge this remarkable coalition that brought in mikhail gorbachev as a third negotiating partner, and ended the cold war. and for that reason alone, reagan and thatcher will be remembered. >> host: amanda foreman, did margaret thatcher talk to you for this cover story in "newsweek"? >> guest: unfortunately lady thatcher is unable to give in
what was the importance of the relationship with ronald reagan? >> guest: oh, thatcher's relationship with reagan i think is one of the greatest the finding relationships of the late '20s century. they understood each other totally. and they support each other totally. and they shared a vision of an enterprise society, where every man and every woman has the right to rise, the right to better themselves, and that government should not be redistributing wealth. government should be...
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he worked for all new for six years with president ronald reagan. matthews worked in washington from 1987-2000. he started his talk show, hardball with chris matthew's in 1997. and in 2002, he started the syndicated weekly political talk show, the chris matthews show. he is the author of six books including hardball, how politics is played. ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming chris matthews to the national press club. [applause] >> thank you. it's great to be here for tip, and for jerry, and for the friendship. and i want to talk about that today. and by the way, congratulations. i couldn't believe you are a little nervous picking your and i can't think him i never get nervous speaking. but going to afghanistan is what really gets to me. [laughter] and scott, you're great. you are great. i really come every time i got on the bus coming campaigns, and i watched the people with a newspaper and they've would sit around and i've watched about a few things and check a few things. and i pick up the paper, beautifully turned a factual piece.
he worked for all new for six years with president ronald reagan. matthews worked in washington from 1987-2000. he started his talk show, hardball with chris matthew's in 1997. and in 2002, he started the syndicated weekly political talk show, the chris matthews show. he is the author of six books including hardball, how politics is played. ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming chris matthews to the national press club. [applause] >> thank you. it's great to be here for tip,...
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>> ronald reagan had a successful second term. and bill clinton had a reasonably successful second term. you that some presidents who did okay in the second term. in both parties. >> in defense, how do you define success? >> i think bill clinton did pretty darn well in his second term. >> 5.5 on a 10-point scale. >> six. >> who else do we got? >> jack bagley with the bagley grew. since both of you are creatures of the house, let's assume that the election and the house get closer without taking a number, what is your prediction on leadership of the house, both republican and democratic? >> let me jump in and politely modified that question just to give it a little twist. on the republican side, how many seats could republicans lose before john boehner gets in some difficulty? and if you'd like to take the fifth amendment, i'm sure -- >> no, because i was there. that's all i got elected to leadership was after we took, and it was a big loss, like a five or six -- >> 1998, i was chair [talking over each other] >> just over that kind
>> ronald reagan had a successful second term. and bill clinton had a reasonably successful second term. you that some presidents who did okay in the second term. in both parties. >> in defense, how do you define success? >> i think bill clinton did pretty darn well in his second term. >> 5.5 on a 10-point scale. >> six. >> who else do we got? >> jack bagley with the bagley grew. since both of you are creatures of the house, let's assume that the...
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um, the big issue, the big change began in 1980, of course, with the election of ronald reagan because ronald reagan brought with him to washington, um, a very underrated figure in recent american history, someone who i don't think gets his due as an important person, and that's edwin meese. because edwin meese at first as an adviser and then as attorney general said, look, there has been a liberal ayen da at the supreme court -- agenda at the supreme court, there needs to be a conservative agenda at the supreme court. what was that agenda? expand executive power, end racial preferences intended to assist african-americans, speed up execution, welcome religion into the public sphere and, above all, um, reverse roe v. wade and allow states once again to ban abortion. a big part of the reagan revolution, um, was the arrival in washington of a group of young and committed conservative lawyers who wanted to work in that, on behalf of that agenda. who were two of the best and brightest of that group? john roberts and samuel alito. 197 finish -- in 1985 in a memo plotting litigation strategy
um, the big issue, the big change began in 1980, of course, with the election of ronald reagan because ronald reagan brought with him to washington, um, a very underrated figure in recent american history, someone who i don't think gets his due as an important person, and that's edwin meese. because edwin meese at first as an adviser and then as attorney general said, look, there has been a liberal ayen da at the supreme court -- agenda at the supreme court, there needs to be a conservative...
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from your book you write about ronald reagan. reagan had always told the public that is turning up the pressure on the soviets. making them bargain seriously. he would not only deal, but try to abolish nuclear weapons. when they heard this, many champions had waited. with gorbachev, it showed that he meant what he had said. at break of it, he tried to end the nuclear arms race once and for all, even if it infuriated some of his earlier supporters. like the most effective american president, reagan alternately proved that he was not a captive of his political base, but his later. >> guest: one of them was in the way that he was running in 1980, people forget that late october -- until late october, he was running even with jimmy carter. the reason they were essentially tied is they are a significant number of undecided. with the undecided largely slight is that -- there is one thing that bothers us, it is so tough on the soviet union that we might get involved in the war. later, he went him and said, governor, give some speeches w
from your book you write about ronald reagan. reagan had always told the public that is turning up the pressure on the soviets. making them bargain seriously. he would not only deal, but try to abolish nuclear weapons. when they heard this, many champions had waited. with gorbachev, it showed that he meant what he had said. at break of it, he tried to end the nuclear arms race once and for all, even if it infuriated some of his earlier supporters. like the most effective american president,...
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[cheers and applause] hear now the words of ronald reagan, the 40th president of the united states. abraham lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some men could decide that others were not fit to be free and therefore should be slaves. likewise, we cannot survive as a free nation which some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion. those were the words of reagan, and they resinate still to today. here are the words of abraham lincoln. my administration is dedicated to the preservation of america as a free land and there is no cause more important for preserving that freedom than reaffirming the transcendent right to life of all human beings, the right without which no other rights have any meaning. you are here today because thomas jefferson said you have an inalienable right that came from your creator. first and foremost is life, and that's why we stand here, that's what i stand here for, each and every one of you, and may god bless you today. this fight shall not end until we protect our unborn. may god bless you al
[cheers and applause] hear now the words of ronald reagan, the 40th president of the united states. abraham lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some men could decide that others were not fit to be free and therefore should be slaves. likewise, we cannot survive as a free nation which some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion. those were the words of reagan, and they resinate still to today. here are the words of abraham...
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speaking at the ronald reagan international trade center in washington, she says the agency is now better able to enforce the law and identify and manage threats. this is about half an hour. >> good morning. i'm very happy to welcome all of you to washington. for sec speaks 2012. i'm rob, director of the enforcement division. and i'm particularly honored to once again serve as cochair of sec speaks along with my friend and colleague meredith cross, director of the sec's division of corporation finance. as cohosts, for the next two days, our principal job is one of timekeeping. so to get us off to a good start let's move right into the program. the conference covers two days, today and tomorrow, and we'll be presenting a number of panels from various sec divisions and offices to discuss issues, developments, trends, cases, regulations in the sec's work over the past year. we've invited commentators from the industry and from academia to give their views on each panel. many of our outside commentators have previously served as commissioners or in other capacities so they can offer perspecti
speaking at the ronald reagan international trade center in washington, she says the agency is now better able to enforce the law and identify and manage threats. this is about half an hour. >> good morning. i'm very happy to welcome all of you to washington. for sec speaks 2012. i'm rob, director of the enforcement division. and i'm particularly honored to once again serve as cochair of sec speaks along with my friend and colleague meredith cross, director of the sec's division of...
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reagan's 198 # -- 1982 address to the oval office about libya's situation where they intervened and we had deployed marines or were about to and would it make a difference for a president to do that today, to talk about the way in which our failures in arab-israeli affairs led to anti-americanism in the region? even how popular government emerging from the arab awakening will reflect that attitude towards american foreign policy when they make their foreign policy, and how there is an opportunity for a diplomatic resolution, and i think, probably, many people in the american audience would not know the difference between iranian version, iranian enrichment, the design of a warhead, what it takes, and what it takes to require it accurately, and hoping all of that would take. that's the question for anyone who. who wants to take it. can the american president educate the american people quickly enough to bring about a domestic constituency that supports different kind of american foreign policy in the region. >> i'll take the first stab. are these on? yeah. admittedly, it's very diffi
reagan's 198 # -- 1982 address to the oval office about libya's situation where they intervened and we had deployed marines or were about to and would it make a difference for a president to do that today, to talk about the way in which our failures in arab-israeli affairs led to anti-americanism in the region? even how popular government emerging from the arab awakening will reflect that attitude towards american foreign policy when they make their foreign policy, and how there is an...
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he was known probably as breaking the boston police strike and ronald reagan quoted him when he broke the air traffic control union in 1981. but what is not known about coolidge is that he once said this about industry. we must humanize industry or the system will break down. he was also when he was in the state legislature president of the state senate he was asked to lead a committee to broker and to mediate the strike and he did so and both sides agreed to the proposal that he championed as the chairman of the committee which was essentially a significant wage increase for the workers. he was extremely pro-civil rights both for catholic, jewish and african-americans. all of them of course were persecuted at that time. that was a time in america when the kkk was very powerful and most of us here in yankee land think the ku klux klan was designed as an organization to persecute african-americans. the truth was the kkk was first invented in the midwest to persecute catholics and then jewish and african-americans and calvin coolidge, and they also played a big significant role in polit
he was known probably as breaking the boston police strike and ronald reagan quoted him when he broke the air traffic control union in 1981. but what is not known about coolidge is that he once said this about industry. we must humanize industry or the system will break down. he was also when he was in the state legislature president of the state senate he was asked to lead a committee to broker and to mediate the strike and he did so and both sides agreed to the proposal that he championed as...
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four years later you had ronald reagan who is going to clean up washington from jimmy carter and reagan was the outsider. citysearch a look at the different tiers, you realize what happens is the style changes. and as time capsules to really capture the flavor of the time. she start to see the same messages over and over again you thought you to give an equal time and show even though he didn't appear in commercials that year, he did have one attempt at a catchy jingle cycle. so if a piece of that. you remember the obama girl from 2008. this is the original example. ♪ i'd rather have a man who knows what to do when he gets to be the prize. ♪ i love the governor of illinois. she is the guy that brings the job of peace and joy. ♪ the gop doublecross. he is the one who told all the perks, get lost. what she did for your own great day, you're going to do for the rest of the 48. i have to keep things moving to make a first time now, but you can see all these have been around if you have a good connection. but we kind of laugh at these musical ads. at the beginning of the election, ther
four years later you had ronald reagan who is going to clean up washington from jimmy carter and reagan was the outsider. citysearch a look at the different tiers, you realize what happens is the style changes. and as time capsules to really capture the flavor of the time. she start to see the same messages over and over again you thought you to give an equal time and show even though he didn't appear in commercials that year, he did have one attempt at a catchy jingle cycle. so if a piece of...
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reagan at that time, is that correct, mr. attorney general? >> that's correct. >> let me thank you again for your service and ask a series of question. i will be giving to you today june 7 a letter to ask with the investigation of the state of texas for its purging of 1.5 million voters, and i in courage and hope that there will be a speedy review inasmuch as that we're in a process at election, and november 2012 election. i do want to just ask the question on this issue of voting, and my good friend from california wanted to establish certain rights, egress, interest, the protection of axis and the first amendment. and i want to just focus, if you wanted to petition your government and use no government id, most could either take their vehicle, hitch a ride, but they would not be totally prohibited from exercising that constitutional right. and you made a point about fundamental right, but if you're denied the right to vote, there is no alternative, is there not, there is no other way, maybe could get a bullhorn in the middl
reagan at that time, is that correct, mr. attorney general? >> that's correct. >> let me thank you again for your service and ask a series of question. i will be giving to you today june 7 a letter to ask with the investigation of the state of texas for its purging of 1.5 million voters, and i in courage and hope that there will be a speedy review inasmuch as that we're in a process at election, and november 2012 election. i do want to just ask the question on this issue of voting,...
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reagan's strategy at work. cal >> our first caller deprived the inability of the senate to passt legislation about theof outsourcing of jobs.ould gue i would guess you would disagre. with her. estimate the outsourcing of jobs is basically because they arehi jumping ship. they can't operate in this country under all theses and regulations and government taxes and all the control and now we want to add even more to the pot and expect everything to runise smoothly and raise taxes on top of that. the design america would have left of her is being destroyed, and it must be stopped. >> next up is philadelphia. joe is an independent. go ahead, please.ing. >> good morning, susan. thanks for taking my call. i want to reflect on the lealious caller who came before me.most post world war ii we were the we the greation on earth. they told us the russians andthe chinese were going to annihilato us as a society. all t we have all these jobs over world war ii and all thesef makg politicians got hold of making bet lives better
reagan's strategy at work. cal >> our first caller deprived the inability of the senate to passt legislation about theof outsourcing of jobs.ould gue i would guess you would disagre. with her. estimate the outsourcing of jobs is basically because they arehi jumping ship. they can't operate in this country under all theses and regulations and government taxes and all the control and now we want to add even more to the pot and expect everything to runise smoothly and raise taxes on top of...
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in 1984 while ronald reagan was president congress stopped granting that authority. and when this process was left to follow the usual congressional pace and procedures, not surprisingly it bogged down. so congressional committees fought to protect their turf and lobbyists fought to keep things the way they were because they were the only ones who could navigate the confusion and because it is always easier to add than to subtract in washington. inertia prevented any real reform from happening. layers kept getting added on and added on and added on. the department of homeland security was created to consolidate intelligence in security agencies but congress didn't consolidate on its side. so now the department of homeland security reports to over 100 different congressional panels. that's a lot of pea work. that's a lot of reports to prepare. that's not adding value. it is not making us safer to file a whole bunch of reports all the time. it has been a generation since a president had the authority to propose streamlining the government in a way that allowed for real
in 1984 while ronald reagan was president congress stopped granting that authority. and when this process was left to follow the usual congressional pace and procedures, not surprisingly it bogged down. so congressional committees fought to protect their turf and lobbyists fought to keep things the way they were because they were the only ones who could navigate the confusion and because it is always easier to add than to subtract in washington. inertia prevented any real reform from happening....
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reagan raised the debt ceiling 17 times. president george w. bush raised the ceiling seven times. let's just do the right thing. let's get the country moving again and let's get the public game out of the politics. thank you. >> next up, dallas. good morning. >> yes, good morning. how are you. >> joost great. >> caller: i'm just kind of glad to hear in there because of a goody was so hateful and against president obama. he's not doing anything any person hasn't done or tried to do. so the lady from california was saying too much spending. since they want to cut everything let them cut it and i'm going to -- i have a lady yesterday that was republican almost in tears. she said her husband had went to an agency and had been there for four hours, but that's what they ask for. the republicans are talking about people's bodies and that money is just sitting for those rich people for all this time and no one has created one job. you are going to have on certainty if you don't open up your money and how your people for services and
reagan raised the debt ceiling 17 times. president george w. bush raised the ceiling seven times. let's just do the right thing. let's get the country moving again and let's get the public game out of the politics. thank you. >> next up, dallas. good morning. >> yes, good morning. how are you. >> joost great. >> caller: i'm just kind of glad to hear in there because of a goody was so hateful and against president obama. he's not doing anything any person hasn't done or...
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we would ask if you would carry your networking opportunity out into the atrium of the ronald reagan building so people who would like to watch the next session have the opportunity to do so. [inaudible conversations] >> ladies and gentlemen, we're about to begin. we'd ask you one more time, the atriumtake your networking as we will begin our session. at this point in time, i'm going to call mr. chris branchard from the congressional research who is the chair of our session. mr. blanchard. >> hello, everyone. if you could, please, take your seats, we'll get, we'll get this maybe penultimate or ultimate panel started. i know it's been a long day, and we'll appreciate your attention for this insightful and, hopefully, thought-provoking panel for arab north africa. the current of change had its humble beginnings in arab north africa. the experiences of countries on the southern shores of the mediterranean offer competing visions of of the course that change may change. the in tunisia, we find a government faced with security challenges and debates over fundamental constitutional princip
we would ask if you would carry your networking opportunity out into the atrium of the ronald reagan building so people who would like to watch the next session have the opportunity to do so. [inaudible conversations] >> ladies and gentlemen, we're about to begin. we'd ask you one more time, the atriumtake your networking as we will begin our session. at this point in time, i'm going to call mr. chris branchard from the congressional research who is the chair of our session. mr....